Trestle Creek - Shallow Car

3D Model

In December of 1917, a rock slide between Hope and Sandpoint caused a Northern Pacific engine and 12 freight cars to leave the tracks. The Northern Idaho News reported that 2 cars “left the railroad grade and plunged to the lake bottom several feet below.”

Brian Slater and I, with support from GUE Seattle and Jake’s Scuba Adventures (Coeur d’Alene), created a 3D model of the first of the cars. This one rests “several feet” down from the railroad grade and is in shockingly good condition, given that it fell 100 feet into a lake more than 100 years ago.